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  1. Re:Fundamental Physics Law on Creationists Demand Equal Airtime With 'Cosmos' · · Score: 1

    For one, there is this big, burning ball of gas just 93 million miles away from us.

    So that's what happened to Fred Phelps.

  2. Re:hash of history on Creationists Demand Equal Airtime With 'Cosmos' · · Score: 1

    I'm hoping he'll write up a similar series for Bruno. If "Cosmos" mentions Bruno they should also mention Deepak Chopra, since he has as much to do with modern astronomy as Bruno did in the late 1500s, i.e., not much.

    Funny, modern scientists don't advocate burning Chopra at the stake. So why did the Church burn Bruno?

  3. No on Creationists Demand Equal Airtime With 'Cosmos' · · Score: 1

    Natural selection is not "unknowable". We have some awareness of how mutations occur. We also know that some mutations are beneficial (help the organism live longer and reproduce), while most are harmful. The human eye does not show a lack of evolution.

    Thus anything is proof of evolution according to you.

    Not quite so much as anything is evidence for God (to the believer).

  4. Re:Embedded on Linux May Succeed Windows XP As OS of Choice For ATMs · · Score: 1

    They allow anyone access to the USB port?

  5. Re:Embedded on Linux May Succeed Windows XP As OS of Choice For ATMs · · Score: 1

    I've never seen an ATM with an alphabetic keyboard.

  6. Interesting on Flies That Do Calculus With Their Wings · · Score: 5, Funny

    Any way of installing these wings on college students?

  7. Re:Obvious cluelessness is obvious on Malware Attack Infected 25,000 Linux/UNIX Servers · · Score: 1

    Obvious red flag showing no clue about the topic - it's just buzzword bingo throwing impressive sounding verbage around with a lack of understanding.

    "VB" is impressive sounding verbiage?

  8. Re:Who's ole Nick then? on Why San Francisco Is the New Renaissance Florence · · Score: 1

    Diane Feinstein?

  9. Re:Gates foundation: not good for education on Is the New "Common Core SAT" Bill Gates' Doing? · · Score: 1

    It is more like,
    People like his ideas, They read 1/2 of the recommendation, then they propose it to the government who only gets 1/2 of that proposal, who then under pressure implements it using 1/2 of the proposal. This may go down a few levels only leaving the Title "Common Core" as remaining.

    The homeopathic approach to educational policy?

  10. Re:Ask a Native American about US "agreements"... on Ukraine May Have To Rearm With Nuclear Weapons Says Ukrainian MP · · Score: 1

    Because the next time the US requests a country to surrender its nukes, that country will remember this example?

  11. Re:The goverment's PINGAS envy on Firefox OS Will Become the Mobile OS To Beat · · Score: 1

    Would having the source allow one to spoof one's location?

  12. Re:The plan costs more for a smartphone on Firefox OS Will Become the Mobile OS To Beat · · Score: 1

    $336/12 months per year is $28 a month.

  13. Re:bigger problem on Ask Slashdot: Linux For Grandma? · · Score: 1

    Could you be more specific? And how would an ordinary user even deal with the kernel?

  14. Re:PowerPoint? Really? on Physics Forum At Fermilab Bans Powerpoint · · Score: 1

    I use Beamer for mathematical presentations, but I use PowerPoint for stuff in words.

  15. Re:Writing in the days of text, as opposed to the on Ask Slashdot: What Software Can You Not Live Without? · · Score: 1

    Actually web-based applications come at a great price. Their history discourages communication and thinking. Back in the day of text, there were much better tools for communicating than we have in web-apps, web-sites, and in particular blogs. The textarea widget is a muzzle on good discourse, on the ability to argue and persuade. It encourages people to not address one another and to talk past each other. It should be abolished.

    And yet you are using a web-based app to say this.

  16. Re:vim on Ask Slashdot: What Software Can You Not Live Without? · · Score: 1

    Oh, vi annoyed me more than a week, and emacs didn't annoy me at all. In my original post, I should have said that I find modal text editors annoying, rather than they're just annoying.

  17. Re:Why? on The Next Keurig Will Make Your Coffee With a Dash of "DRM" · · Score: 1

    Costco and other sell knockoff compatible pods for far less

    But wasn't the point of the article that you could no longer use knockoffs with Keurig?

  18. Re:You lost me at vim on Ask Slashdot: What Software Can You Not Live Without? · · Score: 1

    I didn't say I only preferred web-based applications. It's just that my email accounts are web accessible. I would not particularly care for a web-based text editor.

  19. Re:You lost me at vim on Ask Slashdot: What Software Can You Not Live Without? · · Score: 1

    The mail account on which I run Thunderbird is web accessible. Why would I need to run ssh? Besides, it runs fine under ssh -X.

  20. Re:You lost me at vim on Ask Slashdot: What Software Can You Not Live Without? · · Score: 1

    Your e-mail reader should never be used as your text editor.

    But I never use Thunderbird as a text editor.

  21. Re:You lost me at vim on Ask Slashdot: What Software Can You Not Live Without? · · Score: 1

    Off you go now

    Really, do you expect me to leave?

  22. Re:You lost me at vim on Ask Slashdot: What Software Can You Not Live Without? · · Score: 1

    Wrong again. Emacs is a very good text editor.

  23. TeX/LaTeX on Ask Slashdot: What Software Can You Not Live Without? · · Score: 1

    I need TeX/LaTeX. And GNU emacs.

  24. Re:As a composer and writer ... on Ask Slashdot: What Software Can You Not Live Without? · · Score: 1

    TeXLive (never use your distro's version of TeX/LaTeX -- always just install TeXLive)

    Why not use your distro's version?

  25. Re:since the 80's.... on Ask Slashdot: What Software Can You Not Live Without? · · Score: 1

    But is vi learnable in the first place?